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Activity for Monica Cellio
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A: Enabling 2FA should include some recovery codes Setting up 2FA now produces a recovery code (with instructions to save it). If you later sign in using that recovery code, it disables 2FA until you re-enable it, getting a new code in the process. If you were already using 2FA before we added recovery codes, you'll need to disable and re-enable ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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A: Allow tagging answers with tools and version numbers I asked a question on Meta about allowing tags for answers a while back. You might find the discussion there helpful. I'd still like to do something to support these use cases; it's not clear what we should do. If we did the smaller thing of supporting `[tag:name]` syntax in posts, so you'd get ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
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Should posting on Meta affect reputation? When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
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A: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT? I want to let you know that today we (Codidact team) posted our default Gen-AI policy. As far as this community is concerned I think it's consistent with what you're already doing and nothing surprising, but I want to make sure folks are aware. What we posted is not a deviation from what we were ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
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A: Closed Question Too Generic, Reason Unhelpful This response is about closure in general, not any specific question. (A moderator has already addressed the specific case.) The close notice also includes the following text (emphasis mine): > Users with the reopen privilege may vote to reopen this question if it has been improved or closed i... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Are questions about language design on-topic? I was chatting with somebody who's involved with a proposal on SE for a site about language design and who is interested in other options too. Some sample questions: - What are the tradeoffs between explicit line-end syntax (like semicolons) versus newlines? - How could a parser implement cus... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: The size of the code format window is much too small. I apologize for the long delay in getting such a small change made and deployed. Someday I would like the blocks to be resizable, but in the meantime, a code block now shows 40 lines before the scrollbar kicks in: ```text 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic? Are we talking about questions asking for book recommendations, or for a way to share/compile book recommendations? A question doesn't have to be the vehicle for the latter. A question like "what are the best C++ books?" is likely to yield results that are haphazard and hard to manage. It would ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: "Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly While reviewing older bug reports we discovered that the first problem is now working; the code fences show up in the diff. The second one still shows as one line without a clear diff, but I don't think we've seen a recent case so it's possible that's a one-off data error of some sort. I'm going to... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Asking and answering FAQ style questions As other answers have said, we have some of these, they're helpful, and they can be hard to write. On Codidact there's another option, should the community want to enable it: articles. An article is another type of top-level post. They're being used in a few different ways around the network: lo... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: Reaction comment doesn't appear if previous comment for retracted reaction was deleted I wrote this in a comment on the GitHub issue and would be interested in input: > I can think of two fixes, both in the reaction-handling code: > > 1. Check for an existing thread (as it does now) and then, if it's deleted, undelete it. Problem: this can resurrect something that a moderator deci... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Should I post a link to the Github repo for code reviews? Welcome! It's best if the code being reviewed is here on the site, for ease of reference and defense against link rot. That sounds like a sizable program; are there key parts you'd like review on, as opposed to the whole thing? You could include the GitHub link for anybody who wants to run it as... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Should we allow questions about software quality assurance? My personal opinion (I am not speaking for Codidact) is that we named the community "Software Development", not "Programming". Testing, both unit testing done by the developer and functional/performance/integration testing done (usually) by testers, is part of the software-development process writ l... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Tracking what users are searching in a content management system Every URL served by your web site is recorded in your web server logs. You could brute-force your way through it by grepping for whatever the prefix is for your search URLs (for example, `/search?query=`), but if you're using a tool or package to build and run your web site (the question title refer... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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How can we grow this community? Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged participants. The folks already here are doing good work; our challenge is to find more people like you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Specify framework / library version in the answer When I first saw this I thought this would be a use case for being able to apply tags to answers (which I've brought up before on Meta, IIRC). But version ranges are a little different, and I don't think you want to necessarily create tags for every version of something just so people can tag answer... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope This sounds like useful content to me. I defer to the community on how best to achieve that; I'm here to offer another option from the platform side, in case it's useful. Codidact support articles in addition to questions and answers. An article is a top-level post type that doesn't have childre... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Allow filtering search for only Meta (or any other category) You can now add "category:###" to a search, where ### is the number in the URL for the category, to restrict the search to one category. For example, Software Dev Q&A is 38 and Code Review is 44. I've just pushed an update to the search help, where you can find more information about this and oth... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Unfair accusation in a comment and consequent loss of *actual* reputation I looked at your answer and those comments, skimmed the Wikipedia page, and I do not see direct copies. OOP is a fundamental topic, widely taught and widely written about. It's not surprising to me that many independent explanations take similar approaches. To some people that probably looks like ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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What's the correct way to merge a branch and its dependent branch back to master? In `git` I branched feature-A from master. To reduce eventual merge conflicts later, I branched feature-B, which heavily overlaps and depends on A, from feature-A. A build of the feature-B branch shows both sets of changes, as expected. (There have been no further commits on feature-A after this b... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Why is this client code getting the wrong date for a few hours a day? There are two issues here. The first is that this code isn't rolling over at 8PM as expected: if (now.getHours() > 20) { now.setDate(now.getDate() + 1); } This change happens at 9PM as explained in this answer. The second increment is the one that's coming from this code, not... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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Why is this client code getting the wrong date for a few hours a day? Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adjust it (see below), look up the right entry in the JSON, and display it. Most of the time this works ri... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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We'd like to add another moderator -- who? Several months ago we asked for temporary moderators for this community and two people stepped up. One of them later had to step back, leaving Alexei as a sole moderator. Alexei is doing a great job, but we think things run smoothly when there are at least two moderators -- it gives mods someone to... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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How can I test my front end for accessibility to the blind? I'd like my web front end to be accessible, including to people who use screen readers. I know the basics about labels and alt text for images, but there are some areas where I'm not sure what a screen reader will do and I'd like to find out and catch it if we're doing it badly. I don't want to act... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Editing tags failed? This is weird: I tried to edit the tags on your post to see if I could reproduce it, and the editor showed the C++ tag there even though the post did not show it. I deleted and re-added it and saved the post and it shows up now. I don't know why that happened. I'll pass it along to the dev team. ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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How can I find git branches where all branch-local commits are from specific people? []()We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucket. But a lot were abandoned and not deleted, some by people who no longer work here. I want to fin... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Enable text-area for comments to be resized The comment box is now resizable; drag the control in the lower right corner down to make the area bigger. -- Update: With the later introduction of threaded comments, the comment box lost its resizing but is larger than it was. It was status-completed at the time and then overcome by other ch... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: How should we share some content between two otherwise-independent git repositories? I was discussing this problem again with some coworkers, and one of them said "QA has that problem too -- here's what we're doing about it". At its core, having everybody add lots of tests to the test suite in the server repository isn't manageable. In addition to the volume -- and number of file... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Cannot close a question as a duplicate due to "Invalid input for other post" error Codidact doesn't support cross-community duplicates, like closing a question in a per-community meta category as a duplicate of a question on main Meta. However, our messaging there could be, uh, better. We now have a GitHub issue tracking this; thanks for the report. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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A: Add link dialog should capture enter This was a tricky one to diagnose, but it's fixed now. Thanks for the report. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Growing software.codidact Speaking personally (not as a Codidact admin): One low-key way to promote this community there is to cite it in answers. If you see a question there that you want to answer, see if it's here too. Maybe there's already an answer here, or maybe you want to write an answer. You can then write an a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How can I generate documentation from comments in SQL DDL? I have some SQL scripts that contain DDL to create tables and schemas for a database. I'd like to be able to comment this SQL and then use those comments to generate output documentation (in HTML). I want to be able to document the purpose of each table and table column, and have the output be nice... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Who should the moderators be? I nominate Lundin, who is very active on main and meta, has proposed some initiatives on meta, and is well-positioned to help us firm up sometimes-fuzzy scope and help this young community grow. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Who should the moderators be? I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Should we have a Code Review Section / category? Proposal, based on the feedback here so far: because code-review questions have special rules, create a category. This allows (and we would need proposed text from the community for): - Category description: that short text at the top of the posts list; can contain links. - Posting guidance: y... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter? For the git branch parameter, set Branch Filter to: origin/(.) I found the parentheses to be counter-intuitive, because if you don't specify a filter you get: . (No parens.) If you are filtering stuff out, you use parens to indicate the part to keep. The parens indicate a capt... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter? I'm using Jenkins with a branch parameter to specify the branch to build from. Other stuff downstream needs the branch name to not have the leading "origin/" -- just "feature/blahblah" or "bugfix/12345" or similar. The advanced settings for the parameter let me specify a branch filter via regex, but ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Who should the moderators be? As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing this as a stopgap, while co... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A? In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a tag would find them alongside questions. Articles, unlike questions, do not have answers, though they do ha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I fill in tag information? I've just lowered the reputation requirement for both Edit and Edit Tag from 250 to 200. If folks here want it to be lower -- young communities have different needs, after all -- please make a meta post so people can vote. Thanks. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Long code lines are not wrapped Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctness of code. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How should we share some content between two otherwise-independent git repositories? We have two teams, dev and doc, and I'd like them to have shared access (via git) to a common subset of content. Specifically, I would like the examples that are used in the doc and that are scriptable to be part of our regular (dev) tests, so we'll know if a code change has broken one of them. Rig... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can regular users add tag wikis? And what are the guidelines for creating them? Editing tag descriptions is a privilege, currently based on reputation. (Changes to the privilege system are coming, but not yet.) The threshold is currently set at 250 rep. I recognize the bootstrapping problem of a new site, particularly one that doesn't have moderators yet. Please feel free to... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: "Software Development" to the exclusion of other programming and scripting? It's meant to include all programming and scripting. By calling it Software Development we wanted to convey that it's not just code but also those other things. I'll adjust the description of the Q&A category; if people can propose better descriptions there, and also for our description on the list... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Welcome to Software Development! Welcome to the Codidact site for Software Development! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A from other sites, so your community can set its own direction.[^1] Please ask questions about all aspects of ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |